The situation in Qingliu and Ninghua counties is much more complicated than Zheng Yi expected. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Haoqiang and dozens of wealthy landlords and businessmen in the two counties quickly emptied all the gold and silver treasures in their homes before the Third Regiment of the Instructor and the Red Guards of Western Fujian called, and fled to Sanming, Shaxian and even the farther county seat of Nanping in the east with their families like frightened birds.

The more than 1,000 heroic armed forces who remained did not dare to openly stand up against the Red Army, sneaked into the mountains around the two counties, took out gold and silver property, and bribed the bandits on the hills, trying to jointly deal with the communist forces that occupied Qingliu and Ninghua counties without bloodshed.

Fortunately, Li Lianshan, commander of the Third Regiment, had a calm personality and was firm in command, and after receiving reports from the patrol and reconnaissance groups that frequently exchanged fire with the Haoqiang forces, he had a premonition of the seriousness of the problem and immediately ordered the first company of spies and the police company to withdraw to the county seat.

At the same time, Li Lianshan sent a battalion of officers and men to assist the Red Guard Brigade in western Fujian to defend the county seat of Ninghua, ordered the officers and men of the two battalions to build fortifications in Qingliu County, increased the arrangement and number of light and dark posts, and together with the comrades in western Fujian, mobilized the masses in depth, wantonly opened propaganda stations, and launched a search and screening of the hidden enemies in the city.

Subsequently, Li Lianshan reported the situation to the special committee of the Jiangxi-Fujian border region as soon as possible.

After repeated discussions by the special committee, it was unanimously agreed that Zheng Yi proposed the following measures:

The Second Regiment stationed in Liancheng was ordered to send two battalions and a police company to rush to Qingliu and hand them over to Li Lianshan, commander of the Third Regiment, under full command to quickly clear the two major bandit caves located 12 kilometers north of Qingliu City and 9 kilometers southeast of the city.

After careful planning, Li Lianshan adopted such means as encirclement, deterrence, attacking the heart, and attacking by force, and made full use of the instructor's superiority in firepower to eliminate the two major gangs that had been harming him for many years in just two days and one night.

On the morning of 15 July, 2,000 recruits, led by the teaching company of the Fourth Army of the Red Army, left Tingzhou and rushed to the Jinggangshan revolutionary base area.

On the afternoon of 17 July, 1,500 officers and men of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Division of the Newly Formed Red Seventh Army put on brand-new uniforms and carried 1,300 brand-new rifles and 12 light machine guns newly issued.

A day later, Zhao Jingting, deputy commander of the 1st Teaching Division, who had attended the enlarged military and political meeting, bid farewell to the division commander Zheng Yi, political commissar Li Zhao, and Wang Huchen, commander of the 2nd Teaching Division, and rushed to Ruijin with a carefully selected 1,000 recruits, two directly subordinate companies, and a newly formed engineer battalion directly under the division.

Li Lianshan's third regiment will go south to Liancheng after the handover of defense, and will be officially assigned to the second teaching division of which Wang Huchen is the division commander, and the number will be changed to the fourth regiment, and the number of the fourth regiment stationed in Ruijin will be changed to the third regiment, and the regiment commander will still be concurrently served by deputy division commander Zhao Jingting, which is subordinate to the first teaching division led by Zheng Yi.

So far, the expansion of teaching instructors has been successfully completed, Zheng Yi is still the commander of the first division of teaching, Zhao Jingting is the deputy division commander, Zhang Yao is the chief of staff, and Li Zhao is still the political commissar of the division.

Wang Huchen served as the commander of the Second Division, Shi Renjie served as the deputy division commander, Gao Cheng served as the chief of staff, and Tao Zhuguo served as the political commissar of the division.

Li Lianshan, the former commander of the Third Regiment, will be transferred to the post of chief of staff of the former enemy headquarters after the attack on Longyan; Comrade Luo Huaisheng, a member of the Special Committee, was officially transferred to the First Teaching Division, and was added as a member of the division's party committee and organization committee, and concurrently served as the political commissar of the teaching brigade.

On 20 July, 1,500 officers and men of the Red Fourth Division stationed in Wuping County, under the leadership of Comrade Peng Pao, secretary of the special committee, and Comrade Yuan Guoping, division commander and political commissar, launched a surprise attack on Shifang Town, which had just been occupied by Zhang Guohui's troops in the east, and in one fell swoop crushed the defenders of a regiment, achieving an excellent record of annihilating more than 300 enemies and capturing more than 140 people.

Under the leadership of more than 100 wounded veterans, the two recruit regiments of the Red Fourth Division who remained in Wuping County continued to conduct rigorous basic military training.

In order to enhance the combat effectiveness of the Red Fourth Division, Zheng Yi did not hesitate at all, and resolutely sent the last batch of rifles in stock, totaling 2,200 rifles, plus 200,000 rounds of ammunition, a radio station, and two telegraph personnel, to Wuping County to equip the two new regiments of the Red Fourth Division in training.

In the afternoon of the next day, news of the Pingjiang uprising reached Tingzhou.

Pingjiang River is located in the northeast of Hunan Province, in the upper reaches of Mishui and Luoshui, Miluo River runs through the whole territory from east to west, and is connected with Xiushui and Tonggu in Jiangxi Province in the east, Tongcheng in Hubei Province and Yueyang in Hunan Province in the north, bordering Liuyang in the south, and Changsha and Miluo in the west.

A month ago, the Fifth Independent Division of the Kuomintang Army was sent to Pingjiang to change its defense, and Comrade Peng Dehua, a member of the Communist Party, served as the commander of the first regiment of the division.

In the first half of this month, the Hunan Provincial Committee appointed Comrade Li Guang to the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi border area to restore the Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi border special committee. A few days ago, the enemy discovered that the commander of the 3rd Regiment of the 5th Independent Division, Huang Gonglue, was a member of the Communist Party and ordered his arrest. In this emergency situation, Peng Dehua, Li Guang and others led the First Regiment to launch an uprising in Pingjiang, which had a huge impact.

After learning of this news, members of the special committee of the Jiangxi-Fujian border region and generals at and above the division level who were holding a pre-war preparatory meeting were greatly excited.

At the suggestion of Comrade Pao, preparations for the attack on Longyan were accelerated, and after repeated discussions by the special committee, it was decided to advance the launch of the attack from 1 August to 28 July.

As a result, Zheng Yi's work as a military commissar of the Special Commission has increased exponentially.

Although other members of the special committee of the border region and comrades of party organizations in various parts of western Fujian took over the heavy task of logistics and transportation, allowing the main force to launch an offensive without distraction, Zheng Yi decided to change the battle plan after repeated weighing and deducing with Wang Huchen, Li Zhao, and other old brothers.

In the face of dozens of grim-looking members of the special committee and responsible comrades of local party organizations in western Fujian, Zheng Yi pointed to the broad operational map and talked eloquently:

"In order to attract some scattered forces of Zhang Guohui in Longyan, I think it is most beneficial for the Red Fourth Division on the southern front to take the lead in the attack. At present, only one regiment of Zhang Guohui is stationed in Shanghang County and the surrounding areas, with about 1,500 officers and men, and it is not equipped with artillery or mortars. ”

"The Red Fourth Division only needs to lay down the horizontal post of Huyang Village, which is ten kilometers west of Shanghang, and then slowly advance to Shanghang, which can play the role of knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger."

"I think it's better to knock down Shanghang County in one go!" Comrade Wang Haiping stood up and suggested loudly.

The military and political cadres immediately became hotly discussed, and Comrade Yuan Guoping, commander and political commissar of the Red Fourth Division, slowly stood up: "I also think that we can attack Shanghang." ”

"Thanks to the successive return of wounded officers and soldiers, as well as a long period of repair and replenishment, our Red Fourth Division has recovered to the size of 1,500 people."

"In addition, we also have two new corps that are undergoing intense training, and they can be used as left-behind troops to guard Wuping County and Shifang Town."

"Second, thanks to the instructor's vigorous assistance, our division is now fully equipped with weapons and ammunition, and two days ago we received eight Makqin heavy machine guns, 15 light machine guns, 500,000 rounds of ammunition, and 200 boxes of grenades presented by the instructor, both in terms of weaponry and morale of officers and men, far exceeding the 18th Regiment of Zhang Guohui's unit stationed in Shanghang County."

"As long as we act quickly and tactically appropriately, we should be able to easily take Shanghang County."

The venue immediately burst into warm applause, and Comrade Peng was very happy to agree with Yuan Guoping's opinion, so that the heavy task of capturing the county seat of Shanghang fell on the shoulders of the Red Fourth Division.

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